[Scenario 2: Code Generation with Claude Code] Your team uses Claude Code for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation, integrated into daily development with custom slash commands and CLAUDE.md configuration — and you must judge when plan mode beats direct execution.

You are writing a /scaffold-component skill that generates boilerplate files. You want a guarantee it can create files but can never run shell commands, no matter what its instructions are asked to do. How do you enforce this?

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[Scenario 2: Code Generation with Claude Code] Your team uses Claude Code for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation, integrated into daily development with custom slash commands and CLAUDE.md configuration — and you must judge when plan mode beats direct execution.

You are writing a /scaffold-component skill that generates boilerplate files. You want a guarantee it can create files but can never run shell commands, no matter what its instructions are asked to do. How do you enforce this?

Accepted Answer

Set allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter to permit only the file-write operations the skill needs, excluding Bash

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State “never run Bash” prominently in the SKILL.md instructions

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Trust the skill's narrow purpose to keep it away from Bash

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Run the skill only in plan mode

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